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Seo made easy

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Search Engine OptimizationMADE EASYBy Brad Callen

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DISCLAIMERThis product was originally created by Brad Callen, search engine optimization expert. Allefforts have made made to make the information contained in this eBook correct. Brad Callenand Bryxen Software are not liable for any actions that may result from the informationcontained in this eBook.**NOTE: This product may not be sold as a standalone product and may only be given awayas a free gift or bonus product.

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CONTENTS Chapter 1 "Optimize The Wrong Keywords And Youll Likely Never See Results ...” Chapter 2 "How Changing One Single Onpage Optimization Factor Can Boost Your Rankings By Over 350 Positions!" Chapter 3 "The Secret To Getting Listed In Google In Under 24 Hours - Guaranteed!” Chapter 4 "How To Skyrocket Your Website To The Top Of Google With Properly Planned Offpage Optimization!" Chapter 5 "How To Skyrocket Past The #1 Ranked Website On Google For The Term Diet Information ..." Quick Summary Chapter 6 "Are You Asking Google To Penalize Or Ban Your Website?” Chapter 7 "Dont Get Your Website Banned BY Google... By Accident!” Chapter 8"Possibly The Biggest Misconception About Ranking Well In The Search Engines...” Chapter 9 "What You Must Do To Rank Well For Your Inner Web Pages...” Chapter 10 "The Cold Hard Facts About Google Page Rank And How To Use It To 1-Up Your Competitors!”

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Search Engine Optimization MADE EASY 1By Brad Callen Chapter 1 Chapter 1 “Optimize The Wrong Keywords And Youll Likely Never See Results ...” Note: Before you begin, if youre NOT 100% serious about getting your website to the top of Google and the other major search engines, DO NOT read another word. Only read on if you plan to put into action, everything I will be teaching you. Its best to print this e- Book off, highlight areas, and take notes as you learn the exact steps needed for a top search engine ranking. Ok, on to chapter 1... If youre anything like me, youve probably created a brand new website, Submitted it to a few search engines and hoped that people would mysteriously show up at your site and buy whatever it is you were selling. After a couple of weeks go by and only a few stray people show up at your website, you decide to try and "optimize" your website around your main keyword in hopes that you just might rank well in 1 of the millions of search engines. Another couple of weeks go by and still no luck. At this point you probably give up and decide to either build another website around a different target market or just lose all hope and quit. Well, news flash, as youve probably figured out by now, this is not the way to go about doing things. Let me give you a specific example of what your very first steps MUST be when creating any website. In our example, lets create a weight loss related website. Our weight loss related website will primarily sell a weight loss eBook. Before we start creating and collecting content for the website we need to do a little keyword research. This is VERY important and should not be skipped. To do our keyword research we need to visit a few websites. The first of which should be http://www.goodkeywords.com. They have a very good keyword tool and best of all, its free! Once weve downloaded this software, we can enter the most generic keyword for our website into the software. In our example, our keyword would be "weight loss".

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Search Engine Optimization MADE EASY 2By Brad Callen Chapter 1Youll notice that in the screenshot below, Good Keywords will return a list of related terms. SINo. is a next numbering system and just shows shows you the rank of which keyword was searched the most times last month. The SINo. 1 is "weight loss" and was searched 1,413,194 times in the Overture search engine last month. The Words column shows the specific keyword that was searched. If you enter "weight loss", the Good Keywords tool will bring back the 100 keywords containing the word "weight loss" that were searched for last month. The "count" column will then show us how many times the specific keyword has been searched for the previous month within the Overture.com search engine. Generally, you can take that number times 3, in order to estimate the number of times that keyword has been searched within Google for the previous month. Already, I will see many people making a BIG mistake, and Ill admit, I was one of these people when I first begin my online endevours. Do NOT start off by optimizing for the keyword "weight loss" Why? you ask... If a keyword is searched that many times in Overture, then 100 times out of 100, the competition you will have to outrank will be extremely fierce. This is not something you should try to take on right away. For now, just take my word for it. Ill be teaching you later why starting with these highly competitive phrases is not smart.

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Search Engine Optimization MADE EASY 3By Brad Callen Chapter 1Lets take a quick peek at Google so I can show you exactly how many websites are competing forthis keyword. If we go to Google and enter "weight loss", youll see there are almost 20 millionwebsites competing for this keyword phrase!I dont know about you, but thats an awful lot of websites to be competing against, especially if yourejust starting.By the end of this course, you will be able to eventually target HUGE keywords such as "weight loss",but its always best to start off on the keywords with less competition. Get some traffic with thosekeywords, and THEN you can focus on the larger keywords.Ok, so back to finding which keywords we want to target.If we scroll down, we can find some more specific keyword phrases like "weight loss story","weight loss picture", and "safe weight loss". These could be possible keywords we should target to begin with. Once we have our list of 3 to 4 keywords, we need to go to Google and check out the competition to see exactly how hard it will be to optimize for the specified keyword.

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Search Engine Optimization MADE EASY 4By Brad Callen Chapter 1 Well begin with the keyword "weight loss story" because people looking for weight loss stories are more than likely trying to find out how to lose weight and may buy your weight loss eBook. Youll notice that the #1 ranked website for "weight loss story" at the time of writing this e-Book is: http://www.runwalkjog.com/weight_loss_success_story.htm which is not a top level webpage, meaning its not simply http://www.runwalkjog.com This is good news for us because, typically, if a websites subpage is ranking well in Google, we have an immediate advantage if we choose to target the same keyword with our homepage (i.e. www.domain.com). For now, just take my word on this, as I will go into more detail why its usually easier to rank well for your homepage than any other webpage on your website. Youll also notice that the website has a Google Page Rank of 4.

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Search Engine Optimization MADE EASY 5By Brad Callen Chapter 1 Note: Heres a quick definition of Page Rank. Page Rank is Googles way of giving a specific value to how popular your website is. It is based on the number of "votes" other websites cast for your website. A "vote" is simply when another website places a link on their website that is pointing to your website. Generally, the more "votes" or links you have pointing to your website, the higher your Page Rank (PR) will be. Page Rank is 1 of the many factors that Google takes into account when ranking websites. For example, on the page below this website is linking to www.motivation123.com. So, this website is casting a "vote" for www.motivation123.com, thus increasing the Page Rank of www.motivation123.com. In order to see your own websites Google Page Rank, as well as others, you must have the Google Toolbar installed on your computer. You can get that for free here: http://toolbar.google.com Once youve installed the Google Toolbar, it will be located at the top of your web browser as shown below:

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Search Engine Optimization MADE EASY 6By Brad Callen Chapter 1 Seeing that the #1 ranked website for this keyword only has a Page Rank of 4 is also good news for us, because a Page Rank of 4 should be easy to obtain. Remember, the ONLY way to increase our websites Page Rank is by getting other websites to link to us (getting other websites to "cast votes" for us). Later, Ill teach you the right way to get thousands of links pointing to your website in a matter of a few days. View The Source Code Every website on the internet is created using a programming language called "html". In order to see the "html code" that is used to create a webpage, we must click "view", then "source" within our web browser as shown below: This will open up a text file for us to have a look at and see if this website is actually optimizing their "Onpage Optimization factors".

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Search Engine Optimization MADE EASY 7By Brad Callen Chapter 1 See text file below: * Side Note: There are 2 types of search engine optimization methods, onpage and offpage optimization. Well cover offpage optimization in later chapters, but for now were going to have a look at "Onpage Optimization". As we view the source file from this website, we need to look for a few things. Whether or not they are using <h1> header tags and are placing the keyword "weight loss story" within those tags. In this case, they are not... AND they arent even using <h1> header tags at all! Another great thing for us! Whether or not they are using their main keyword in the <title> tags of the website. In this case, they are, which is one of the main reasons theyre currently ranked highly for "weight loss stories".

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? Search Engine Optimization MADE EASY 8 By Brad Callen Chapter 1 ? Whether or not theyve bolded, underlined, or italicized the words "weight loss story" anywhere in the body of the webpage. In this case, yes... they have. Theyve actually bolded the keyword "weight loss stories" 4 different times throughout the webpage. At first glance, it looks as though this is another one of the major reasons theyve managed to grab the top spot for this keyword. Bolding is something we can do right away, so now we know that we should also bold some of the keywords throughout our copy. ? Whether or not they are using <alt> image tags and placing the keyword "weight loss stories" within that tag. In this case, that answer is easy because theyre not even using any images at all! This is definitely something we can do when optimizing our website. And another thing we can do to "one-up" this #1 ranked website. It is best to add images that are actually named after our main keyword. For example, we could insert an image and call it weight-loss-stories-graphic1.jpg and so on. ? The final thing we want to note is whether or not theyve placed the keyword once at the very beginning of the copy, and once at the very end of the copy. In this case they have placed it near the beginning BUT have not placed it at the end. This is another thing we can do to better optimize our webpage.

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Search Engine Optimization MADE EASY 9By Brad Callen Chapter 1 We now know we can easily out optimize this #1 ranked website! ... At least for all the onpage optimization factors that Google deems as important. The reason we know we can out optimize them is because of the following things weve found out by ? The website is not using the keyword "weight loss stories" in an <h1> header tag. ? The website did not use <alt> image tags containing the keyword "weight loss stories". ? The website did not place the keyword "weight loss stories" at the very end of the page. ? The website has a low Page Rank of 4, which can be beaten. We can easily achieve a Page Rank of 5. Ill show you the exact steps for this in the coming chapters. The website is ranked with their subpage (Weight_loss_success_story.htm) . By optimizing our index page for this keyword, we can one up them. Remember, the main idea behind ranking well on Google is to analyze the top ranked websites to find out exactly what theyre doing and then do those things, BUT just a little better to one up them and obtain a better ranking. Well continue to go through the same process for the other 2 keywords weve found. It is best to analyze the top 5 ranking websites for each keyword. Note: If the top 5 websites for a specific keyword have a Google Page Rank of 6 or higher, its probably not best to shoot for that keyword until we build some momentum and get some initial traffic from the easier ranking keywords with less competition, like I mentioned earlier. Above I mentioned that keyword research was very important in building traffic. Some other very good resources for building keywords and finding niche phrases include the following:

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Search Engine Optimization MADE EASY 12By Brad Callen Chapter 1 http://www.wordtracker.com Monthly Cost: $52.70 That wraps up chapter 1 and the first steps you need to follow in order to choose whcih keywords youre going to target. This is probably the most crucial step in optimizing any website. You MUST build a solid foundation by selecting the keywords with the right amount of competition or youre doomed for failure. Ok, lets move on to chapter 2!

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Search Engine Optimization MADE EASY 13By Brad Callen Chapter 2 Chapter 2 “How Changing One Single Onpage Optimization Factor Can Boost Your Rankings By Over 350 Positions!” Ok, so now weve selected our main 3 keywords: ? weight loss story ? weight loss picture ? safe weight loss Notice that all of the keywords contain the word "weight loss". This will make things easier for us when we begin to optimize our offpage ranking factors which youll learn about later. Lets Optimize Our Webpage ... Step 1: The first thing we need to do is select a page Title for our website. The page title should: Include ONLY our main keywords. The least amount of words you can place in the title, the more weight Google will give to each of the keywords and the higher you will rank. When creating your page title, it should not look like this: ? Welcome to our website! It should not even look like this, which does contain our main keywords, but contains an unnecessary number of words: ? weight loss story and weight loss picture and safe weight loss Although that title isnt horrible and does contain all of your main keywords, you should do a couple of things to cut down on words used. This would be a perfect title for your webpage: ? Weight Loss Story | Safe Weight Loss Picture Notice that Ive: ? Taken out all of the "ands" ? Replaced one of the "ands" with a "|" character ? Note: This character is located on the keyboard directly above the "enter key". ? Combined the keywords "Safe Weight Loss" with "Weight Loss Picture” Always Combine Your Keyword When Possible to cut down on the total number of words that are in your title!

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Search Engine Optimization MADE EASY 14By Brad Callen Chapter 2 Always Combine Your Keywords In The Page Title! When Google looks at our title it will see all 3 of our keywords only. Combining keywords to cut down on the total number of keywords displayed in the title is a great way to boost the strength of each individual keyword, which will have an immediate impact on your ranking. Add <h1> header tags Next well need to add 1 <h1> header tag and place our most important keyword there. The <h1> header tag should be as far towards the top left hand side of the page as possible. When Google reads a webpage, it views the text from the top left hand side of the page, and then follows down to the bottom right hand side of the page. So, its best to place your <h1> header tag on the top left hand or top/middle portion of your page. You can think of an <h1> header tag as a title for whatever content you have on your page. For example, the <h1> header tag of this chapter would have been: "How changing 1 onpage optimization factor can boost your rankings by over 350 positions!” ... and the html code used to create this title would look like this: <h1>"How changing 1 onpage optimization factor can boost your rankings by over 350 positions!"</h1> Of course, I would have changed my lesson title to contain my main keyword if I was actually trying to optimize this page for Google. Also, if possible, its ideal if you can include ONLY your main keyword within the h1 header tags. <h1>Weight Loss Story</h1> would be a perfect header tag. Note: If youre using an html editing program such as Dreamweaver, all you have to do is highlight the text you want to make your <h1> header tag, as shown below: ... and then click the dropdown button from the properties menu, and select "heading 1" as shown below. That will automatically enclose your text within <h1> header tags.

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Search Engine Optimization MADE EASY 16By Brad Callen Chapter 2 Note: If youre using Dreamweaver to create your webpage, simply highlight your graphic and then type "weight loss story" into the "alt" textbox within the properties menu. See below: Next, click on 2 more graphics throughout your webpage and enter your other 2 keywords, plus an extra word like "graphic" or "image"... For example, we would use "weight loss picture graphic" and "safe weight loss image". This ensures that Google wont view this as spam. Force Google To Read Your Keywords First! Now, remember I stated above that Google reads your webpage from top left, to bottom right? Well, in general they do, but because most websites contain a left hand column which contains all of their navigation links, as shown below:

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Search Engine Optimization MADE EASY 17By Brad Callen Chapter 2 Google WILL View all of the text in the left hand column Before The Body of the webpage. This isnt good for us, because we want Google to actually read our content first! How can you get around this? Ive come up with a neat little trick that will ensure that Google reads the actual body of your webpage before the left hand column containing your navigational links. Here is what you need to do: Rather than creating a table that looks like this, which is essentially what the website above looks like... navigational links Your body text... You should create a table that looks like this: (empty column) Your body text... navigational links By doing this, Google will read the top left hand row/column first (This is labeled "empty column") BUT will see that it is empty, so it will then read the body text of your webpage and then read the 2nd left hand row/column which contains your navigational links! :-) Thats all there is to it! In summary, I really want to point out the fact that, although good onpage optimization is something youll really want to do, it is NOT how you make dramatic changes in your search engine ranking! This is one of the biggest misconceptions in the search engine world. Many believe that by getting your keyword density just right, or by moving your keywords around on the page in just the right places, youll really move up in the search engines. Note: Keyword Density is the percentage of times a keyword appears on your page, compared to the total number of words on the page. Example: If there were 10 total words on a webpage and your keyword, "dog", was listed on the page 3 times, the keyword density for the word "dog" would be 30% (3/10=.30). Anyway, before we move on, I want you to know that what Ive taught you so far are only onpage optimization methods. These are things you should do to your webpages, but will only move your website up a few places in the search engines. It is the offpage optimization factors that will get you high rankings. I will teach you exactly what offpage optimization factors are, AND how to make sure you optimize this perfectly for Google and the other major search engines!

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Search Engine Optimization MADE EASY 18By Brad Callen Chapter 3 Chapter 3 “The Secret To Getting Listed In Google In Under 24 Hours - Guaranteed” You may or may not have heard people claim they can get listed in Google in only 24 hours. It seems that nearly 100% of the people you run across in forums act like in order to get indexed by Google in 24 hours is some miracle feat that can only be accomplished by doing some "top secret" marketing tactic or advanced optimization strategy. Well, the truth of the matter is... Getting listed in Google in under a day is quite easy! First, lets define what "getting indexed by Google" means... Lets say that you create a brand new website. For our purposes, well call it www.bradcallenscoolwebsite.com If we go to Google and enter: www.bradcallenscoolwebsite.com into the search box, well see that no results are returned. See below:

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Search Engine Optimization MADE EASY 19By Brad Callen Chapter 3 The reason no results appear is because our website is new and its not "in Googles index" yet. If youre not in their index, your site cant be ranked by them because they dont know your site exists... So, in order to rank in Google, you must first get into their index. Once your website is in there index and you do a search like we did above, youll see the screen below: Notice your website title, description, and URL now appear... This website has been indexed by Google.

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Search Engine Optimization MADE EASY 20By Brad Callen Chapter 3 Ok, now that weve got that out of the way, lets talk about what NOT to do when trying to get indexed by Google. This drives me absolutely crazy when I see people doing this, and is actually what I did at one time as well. The following URL might look familiar to you: http://www.google.com/addurl.html This is Googles actual website submission form. They state that you can use this form to submit your website to their index of websites and it can take up to 6 weeks for your website to be placed into their index. I dont know about you, but 4 weeks is a heck of a long time to just wait for your website to be placed in their index rotation, let alone get a top ranking!

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Search Engine Optimization MADE EASY 21By Brad Callen Chapter 3 Never Use The Google Submission Form! You should NEVER use this form, or any other of the top search engines submission forms for that matter. These search engines include Yahoo, MSN, Altavista, and Alltheweb. So, how do you get your website indexed within 24 hours? Lets stick with our weight loss website for now, and I will take you through the steps youll need to do to get indexed by Google in under 24 hours, guaranteed. ? Go to Google and enter the broadest keyword you can think of thats related to your website. In our example, it will be "weight loss". Once youve done this, youll see a list of Google results. ? Browse through each website and pay particular attention to the Google Page Rank of the website. Note: Remember, Google Page Rank is measured by the number of websites and the "importance" of those websites that link to your website. In general, the more websites that link to your website, the higher your Page Rank will be. So, as youre looking at these top ranked websites for the search term "weight loss", you should try to find websites with a Page Rank of 5 or higher. Once youve found several websites like this, you should check and see whether or not they have links pages. Usually youll see links from their index page that say (resources, links, related sites, etc.) Now, you need to search their website for their contact information or information on getting a link from one of their high Page Rank webpages. Once you find their contact information you should send them an email asking if they will link to your website in return for you linking back to their website. If you do this correctly and professionally, they will respond and will place a link on their website to yours. If you can manage to get 1 PR5 website to link to your website, you will be indexed by Google in under 3 days. If you can get 1 PR6 website to link to you, then you will be in Googles index in under 24 hours! Sometimes persuading the higher page rank websites is pretty tough, especially if your website is brand new, but theres another option you can pursue and that is ...

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Search Engine Optimization MADE EASY 22By Brad Callen Chapter 3 Purchasing Text Links! Purchasing links from high Page Rank websites. The easiest and fastest way to do this is to visit 1 of the many link purchasing websites. Here are a few of the better ones that I personally use on a regular basis. Ive listed them in order of which I view as the best. http://www.textlinkbrokers.com http://www.linkadage.com http:///www.text-link-ads.com Many times you can purchase 1 PR7 link for a 1 month time period for, say, $150. After the month is up, there is no need to renew because you are already in Googles index! So, basically by paying a 1 time fee of $150 you can be indexed by Google within 24 hours, with no work on your part. Something else that I will typically do with new websites, is I will always link my older, higher Page Rank websites to my new websites. If you already own 1 PR5 or 6 website, then place a link on the index page of that PR5 or 6 website and point it to your new website. Leave the link there for 1-3 days and youll quickly see your new website in Googles index! Once youre in the index, you can remove the link from your higher Page Rank website. Its as easy as that... So, you can see that getting indexed quickly by Google is VERY easy and doesnt take a rocket scientist to figure this out. One youre in Googles index, you can begin to do the things Ill be teaching you in the following chapters. Thus far, youve learned: ? How to properly select keywords that arent too competitive ? How to analyze the onpage optimization factors of the websites that arent ranked in the top of the search engines for the keyword you selected. ? How to properly optimize your own website for onpage optimization factors ? And how to "get indexed by Google" in less that 24 hours” On to Chapter 4

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Search Engine Optimization MADE EASY 23By Brad Callen Chapter 4 Chapter 4 “How To Skyrocket Your Website To The Top Of Google With Properly Planned Offpage Optimization!” I dont know about you, but I get extremely excited when I see my new keywords at the top of Google for the very first time. Making big changes in ranking is primarily done by what is called offpage optimization. Earlier I mentioned there were two types of search engine optimization. ? Onpage Optimization ? Offpage Optimization Weve gone over onpage optimization, so lets move on to offpage optimization which is what really makes a HUGE difference in your sites ranking. Properly planned offpage optimization will make the difference between your website ranking #900, and ranking #1 on Google! So, what is offpage optimization anyway? Offpage optimization basically consists of all of the ranking factors that are NOT located on your webpage, that the search engines look at when ranking a website. These include: ? Which websites link to you ? The number of websites linking to you ? The Google of the website linking to you ? The page title of the website linking to you ? The anchor text used in the link linking to you ? The number and type of links linking to the website thats linking to you. ? The number of outbound links on the website that is linking to you ? The total number of links on the website that is linking to you ? Whether or not the websites linking to you are deemed by Google as an authority website. ? The IP Address of the websites linking to you. ? Plus some other things that well get to later... In order to optimize our original website for the keyword "weight loss stories", we need to analyze the offpage optimization techniques of the top 10 ranked websites for our keyword.

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Search Engine Optimization MADE EASY 24By Brad Callen Chapter 4 Copy The Top Ranked Websites To Get A #1 Position The goal here will be to copy exactly what theyre doing, and then do things slightly better. We want to give Google exactly what they want, by making our offpage optimization as close to the top ranked websites as possible, but as I said, slightly better, well edge them out and rank better. Lets change gears and analyze the top ranked website for the keyword, "diet information" because this is a much more competitive keyword that "weight loss stories" and it will help illustrate the kind of offpage optimization that youll need to rank high in the search engines. As I mentioned above, well need to analyze a bunch of things about the #1 ranked website for the term "diet information" (www.diet-i.com). Again, these things include: ? Which websites link to them ? The number of websites linking to them ? The Google of the website linking to them ? The page title of the website linking to them ? The anchor text used in the link linking to them ? The number and type of links linking to the website thats linking to them ? The number of outbound links on the website that is linking to them ? The total number of links on the website that is linking to them ? Whether or not the websites linking to them are deemed by Google as an authority website ? The IP Address of the websites linking to them.

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Search Engine Optimization MADE EASY 25By Brad Callen Chapter 4 Which websites link to them In order to do this, well go to Google and enter the following into the searchbox: link:www.diet-i.com This will bring back a list of websites that back a link pointing to www.diet-i.com. These are www.diet-i.coms link partners. Youll notice that Google says there are about 461 webpages linking to www.diet-i.com. Now that we have the list of websites, well need to analyze the quality of these websites in great detail.

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Search Engine Optimization MADE EASY 26By Brad Callen Chapter 4 The Number of Websites linking to them Google shows that there are about 461 websites linking to them. The Google Page Rank of the websites linking to them. If we click on one of the webpages listed above: (http://healthyweightlossplans.com/resources.php) well see that the Page Rank of this page is 2.

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Search Engine Optimization MADE EASY 27By Brad Callen Chapter 4 The page title of the website linking to them Well not that the page title of this webpage is "Healthy Nutrition with Herbalife Products - Recommended Links". Notice that the page title doesnt include www.diet-i.coms main keyword "diet information". Youll want to try to get websites to link to you from pages that contain your main keyword in their page title. The anchor text used in the link linking to them Anchor text plays an extremely important roll in ranking well in Google. Note: Anchor text is the actual text located within the link linking to www.diet-i.com. For example, in this example: diet information is helpful. ? “Diet information” the anchor text. Ok, now lets look at the webpage above and find where the link to www.diet-i.com is located... See below: Youll notice that the anchor text being used is "Diet Information"... Hmm... How about that? The keyword theyre ranked #1 on happens to be the exact anchor text that theyre using for this link. Keep that in mind.

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Search Engine Optimization MADE EASY 28By Brad Callen Chapter 4 The number and type of links linking to the website thats linking to them Next we need to find the number of webpages linking to the page linking to www.diet-i.com. Again, this page is: http://healthyweightlossplans.com/resources.php So, well simply do the same thing we did with www.diet-i.com to get their list of link partners. Well go to Google and enter: link:www.healthyweightlossplans.com to see how many webpages link to the main domain that our link is located on. Note that Google says there are about 18 webpages linking to www.healthyweightlossplans.com The number of outbound links on the website that is linking to them Ok, now well need to actually count the number of links on this page: http://healthyweightlossplans.com/resources.php By "outbound links", I mean the links that are pointing to other websites, other than pages within www.healthyweightlossplans.com The total number of outbound links is: 26

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Search Engine Optimization MADE EASY 29By Brad Callen Chapter 4 The total number of links on the website that is linking to them This is the total number of links... which includes the "outbound links" from above AND the inbound links (links pointing to pages within this website) The total number of links on the page is: 59 Note: Youll want to try to get links from webpages that have as few total links as possible on the page. Ill go into why in later chapters. Whether or not the websites linking to them are deemed by Google as an authority website This one can be a bit tricky. The idea behind this is that Google views websites that are ranked high in the search engines AND contain lots of content AND have high Page Ranks to be authority websites. For this, I like to use the following free tool. http://www.andyhagans.com/tools/hubfinder/ You can enter the top 10 domains for a specific keyword and the hub finder will find all common websites that link to each of the top 10 sites... Those websites are possible "hubs" or authority sites.

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Search Engine Optimization MADE EASY 30By Brad Callen Chapter 4 The IP Address of the webpages linking to them. To do this well need to use some type of program that will tell us the IP Address of this webpage linking to www.diet-i.com. My favorite tool is: http://www.webrankinfo.com/english/tools/class-c-checker.php This tool will allow you to enter a URL and it will let you know what the IP Address of that URL is. Note: Its important to get links from as many different IP Addresses as possible. So, if we go to this website and enter www.healthyweightlossplans.com well see that the IP Address of this site is: 66.152.98.202

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Search Engine Optimization MADE EASY 31By Brad Callen Chapter 4 Ok, just to review what weve managed to gather thus far: ? There are 461 webpages listed by Google that are linking to www.diet-i.com ? The Google Page Rank of 1 of those websites is 2 ? The anchor text of the link pointing to www.diet-i.com is "Diet Information” ? The title of that webpage linking to www.diet-i.com is "Healthy Nutrition with Herbalife Products - Recommended Links” ? The number of links shown by Google that are linking to that website (www.healthyweightlossplans.com) is 18 ? The number of outbound links on that webpage is 26 ? The total number of links on that webpage is 59 ? The IP Address of this website is 66.152.98.202 Youll want to open up an excel spreadsheet and keep track of ALL of this information as you go... Once youve finished with (www.healthyweightlossplans.com) youll want to move on to , the next "link partner" on the list below, and do the exact same thing with this one.

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Search Engine Optimization MADE EASY 32By Brad Callen Chapter 4 Yes, this can be a time consuming process, but in order to rank well, you must know EXACTLY how the top ranked websites are optimizing their offpage ranking factors, because that is whats getting them top rankings. Heres the good news... When I personally analyze websites I dont do this all manually. I did when I first got started doing search engine optimization a long time ago, but since then Ive gotten smart and realized there was an easier way to do this. I use a software program called SEO Elite to do everything I just mentioned above. Its not a free tool, but its well worth the money for the time it can save you. Let me quickly show you how to use SEO Elite to automate everything I taught above. I do want to stress that its NOT critical to have SEO Elite , but sure saves a lot of time. Using SEO Elite to automate everything... First we need to go to Google and enter the search term diet information. Youll see that the number one ranked website is www.diet-i.com.

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Search Engine Optimization MADE EASY 33By Brad Callen Chapter 4 Next, we need to open up SEO Elite. ? Select radio button 1 - Analyze backlinks using a specific search engine. ? Enter www.diet-i.com into the domain to analyze textbox. ? Select the search engine, Google, by checking the checkbox. ? Click ok. What SEO Elite will do is analyze ALL of the offpage ranking factors that I mentioned above. Again, these things include: ? Which websites link to them ? The number of websites linking to them ? The Google of the website linking to them ? The page title of the website linking to them ? The anchor text used in the link linking to them ? The number and type of links linking to the website thats linking to them ? The number of outbound links on the website that is linking to them ? The total number of links on the website that is linking to them ? Whether or not the websites linking to them are deemed by Google as as authority website. ? The IP Address of the webpage linking to them SEO Elite Will show you everything theyre doing to rank well and will make it extremely easy for you to duplicate on your own website! Once SEO Elite is finished processing, we can click over to the report view tab as shown below.

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Search Engine Optimization MADE EASY 34By Brad Callen Chapter 4 Report View The report view will show us an enormous amount of important information well need to know to outrank this website. First lets look at the Anchor Text column.

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Search Engine Optimization MADE EASY 35By Brad Callen Chapter 4 As I mentioned above, anchor text plays an extremely important roll in ranking well in Google and the other major search engines. Take a look at this webpage that is linking to www.diet-i.com. Notice that the anchor text is "diet information" While looking at the report view within SEO Elite , youll notice that www.diet-i.com has hundreds of backlinks that contain the words "diet information" within their anchor text. This is a BIG plus for them and something youll want to duplicate!

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Search Engine Optimization MADE EASY 36By Brad Callen Chapter 4 Now, lets scroll to the left and look at the IP Address column. * Google favors websites that have many links located on different IP Addresses.

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Search Engine Optimization MADE EASY 37By Brad Callen Chapter 4 If you think about it, it makes sense that Google gives priority to websites that have links on many IP Addresses rather than many links all on the same IP Address. This helps eliminate the possibility of people controlling the search engines. If Google didnt look at IP Addresses, I could simply create 1 website with thousands of pages and link to another 1 of my websites from all of these pages. I would then have thousands of links pointing to my website, which would probably result in a #1 ranking... Unfortunately, Googles smarter than that and doing that wont work, because ALL of your link partners would have the same IP Address, because theyd all be coming from your other website. Anyway, back to the IP Addresses. As we scroll over, click the "IP Address" column heading to sort the column, well notice that www.diet-i.com also has many links from different IP Addresses. Thats also a BIG plus for them.

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Search Engine Optimization MADE EASY 39By Brad Callen Chapter 4 If we click the Page Rank column heading, it will sort the column for us. You can immediately see that www.diet-i.com has 2 links from 2 Page Rank 7 websites. This is very good, in that it will raise www.diet-i.coms Page Rank and ultimately their ranking. Note: When you get a website with a high Page Rank to link to your website, it will increase your page rank more than if a lower page rank website were to link to you. Think of the high Page Rank website as a bucker of water. When they link to you, they poor a certain percentage of the water into your bucket, giving you more water (Page Rank). If a website with a lower Page Rank links to you, they have less water to begin with, so when they poor water into your bucket, it wont be nearly as much... Analysis View Next well take a look at the Analysis View tab.

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Search Engine Optimization MADE EASY 40By Brad Callen Chapter 4 If we click on the column heading titled "Anchor Text", it will sort the column in descending order. You can see that the 2 words that are found the most often in www.diet-i.coms backlink anchor text are the words "diet" and "information". 98.5% of the overall backlinks pointing to www.diet-i.com contain the word "diet" and 85.6% of the backlinks contain the word "information". Also listed is the total number of links containing each of these words. This is just another way of showing you why www.diet-i.com is outranking their competitors. You will want to try and copy these percentages when you optimize your own website and get others websites to link to you. Again, you can do all of this manually within an Excel spreadsheet if you wish to do so... Its just a matter of doing a little math. ? If your percentages are too high, Google may think you are "spamming" and may not give you as high of a rank as you deserve. ? If your percentages are too low, Google wont think your website is important enough to rank highly. Lastly, well click the column heading titled "Title" to sort it in descending order. You can see that the word "diet" is still the top word, at 38% and "information" is still towards the top at 7.9%.

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Search Engine Optimization MADE EASY 41By Brad Callen Chapter 4 The same thing goes for this column. You should try to match these numbers with your own website as closely as possible. These are just a few of the things that we can quickly see about www.diet-i.com by using only a few of the features within SEO Elite Now, I want to mention that it is not 100% necessary to use SEO Elite in order to analyze your competitors to outrank them... but IT IS necessary to analyze your competitors. You can do everything manually that SEO Elite will do for you automatically. So, whether or not you have the software is not important. The important thing to note is that you MUST analyze those top ranked websites to see what theyre doing to rank well. To summarize, youve learned that the main offpage optimization factors are: ? Which websites link to you ? The number of websites linking to you ? The Google of the website linking to you ? The page title of the website linking to you ? The anchor text used in the link linking to you ? The number and type of links linking to the website thats linking to you. ? The number of outbound links on the website that is linking to you ? The total number of links on the website that is linking to you ? Whether or not the websites linking to you are deemed by Google as an authority website. ? The IP Address of the websites linking to you. ? Plus some other things that well get to later...

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Search Engine Optimization MADE EASY 42By Brad Callen Chapter 5 Chapter 5 “How To Skyrocket Past The #1 Ranked Website On Google For The Term Diet Information ...” This is the single most important thing you need to do to rank well. So, listen closely and soak up EVERYTHING Im about to teach you. Its very straightforward and may seem simple, but it works... Now that weve analyzed the top ranked website in our niche, we need to do the necessary things to outrank them. As I taught you earlier, its not the onpage optimization factors that will give you the biggest change in ranking. Remember, onpage factors include: ? page title ? header tags ? alt tags ? meta tags ? bolding, italicyzing, and underlining ? placing keyword in the correct position on the page While onpage optimization is still something you should do, its NOT what will get you high search engine rankings. Its the offpage optimization factors that will. ? Who links to you and how they do it Copy the linking strategy of www.diet-i.com Now that we know who links to www.diet-i.com (The #1 ranked website) and how theyre doing it, we can begin to copy what theyre doing. The goal here is to contact the websites that link to www.diet-i.com and copy the exact linking strategy theyre using to get a #1 ranking. So, how the heck are we going to get hundreds of links pointing to our website, let alone contact all the websites that link to www.diet-i.com and get them to link to us?

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Search Engine Optimization MADE EASY 43By Brad Callen Chapter 5 We could do 1 of 2 things... 1 ? We could go to Google and enter: link:www.diet-i.com which would give us the list of websites that link to them, as I taught you in chapter 4. ? Once you have that list, you could click on each website. Search their website to find a contact email address ? Open up your email program (Outlook or whatever email client you use) ? Write out a link request to them asking them if they would link to your website in return for you linking to their website. Link Request template: Heres an example link request email that typically works pretty well: Hello my name is John Smith. I am seeking out possible link partners that our visitors would be interesting in visiting. Ive found your website to be a very good fit for our visitors. I have already gone ahead and added your link to our website at: http://www.domain.com/TheLinksPageCreatedBySEOElite.htm I am contacting you to see if it is ok to have done so. Also, I would like to ask if you mind linking back to us? If so, please use the linking details below and send me the location of our link on your website. Here is our linking details: Title: (This is the keyword we want to target, which would be "diet information") Description: Description here... URL: http://www.domain.com Weve got several PR6 and 7 websites, so we expect this site to become atleast a PR5 within 1 month and will eventually become a 6 or 7 in 2-3 months. I hope this can be a way for us to benefit our visitors with excellent content. Hope to hear from you soon. John Smith www.domain.com Title: This is the anchor text we would like to be used for our link. You should try to match whatever anchor text the top websites are using to rank well for your search term. Description: This is just that, the description of your website. This could really be anything, but you should write something compelling to get people to click on your link. URL: This is the URL of the web page youre trying to rank well for. Then, do that all over again with the next website in the list. Yes, it takes time... but its essential that you get as many websites to link to you as possible. Otherwise, you will never rank well, period.

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Search Engine Optimization MADE EASY 44By Brad Callen Chapter 5 2 We could fire up SEO Elite and it will do this for you automatically... This is what I do and its a pretty painless process. ? Open up SEO Elite ? Select Radio button 2 ? Select to find link partners by domain name. ? Enter www.diet-i.com into the textbox ? Select Google from the search engine list ? Click Ok

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Search Engine Optimization MADE EASY 45By Brad Callen Chapter 5 View the Report View Tab Youll now need to click over to the report view tab. Youll notice that there are two frames located on this screen. The top frame lists: ? All of the websites that link to www.diet-i.com. ? The contact information for the website. ? The number of times youve emailed them. (This is good to know, because emailing the same website multiple times can upset some webmasters.)

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Search Engine Optimization MADE EASY 46By Brad Callen Chapter 5 The bottom frame allows you to: ? Create as many email templates as you wish. This way, you only have to write the link request email once! ? Create custom links pages containing the websites youre going to send link request emails to. Note: Its always best to add their link to your website before you ask them to link to yours. Youll get a much better response this way. SEO Elite Allows you to add everyones link to your website with a single click of a button. Its all automated! ? Blast out emails to thousands of websites at once! To email more than 1 website at a time, simply click the row in the top frame and it will add the website to your email list. You can literally add thousands of websites to your email list! From then, all youll need to do is click "ok" and BAM! Youve just contacted 1,000+ websites at once! Its always best to make sure you add a link to each website on your website BEFORE you contact them. In the email to them, include the URL where you have added their link. You will get much better results this way. Whats the best way to create links pages? You should place a maximum of 25 links to other websites on a single links page You should create link page themes and place only related links together on the same webpage. For example) You could create a Sports links page, and a Business links page. Only place the business websites on the Business links page and so on. This is an example of how you should set up your main links directory. Youll notice there are many different categories.

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Search Engine Optimization MADE EASY 47By Brad Callen Chapter 5 Lets say we clicked on "General Business", it would then take you to another page that would take you to each of your individual Business related links pages. Each links page would have a maximum of 25 links. So, there are 25 links on Links Page 1, 25 links on Links Page 2, and 25 links on Links Page 3. If I need to add more links, I would create a Links Page 4 and so on... See below: If I were to click on Links Page 1, it would take me to the first 25 business related links as shown below:

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Search Engine Optimization MADE EASY 48By Brad Callen Chapter 5 If I were to click on Links Page 1, it would take me to the first 25 business related links as shown below: ... and so on. That is how to best structure your links pages. Now, back to the link request emails. You have to be careful if you just send out mass emails to people. Its always best to personalize each email by simply stating what you liked "specifically" about their website. It may take a little more time, but will ensure that you dont get accused of spamming them. By personalizing, you could simply say that you liked something about their website. For example, I could say that I visited your website and really liked the article that was written about treadmills. Your website seems like it has many excellent articles and was wondering if you would like to... Etc. Once you send out your link requests, all you have to do is sit back and wait for them to email you back, stating that theyve added your link to their website. This method is VERY powerful. You have total control over who links to you and how they do it!

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Search Engine Optimization MADE EASY 49By Brad Callen Chapter 5 Another way you could increase the number of links to your website is by writing articles related to your topic and then submit those to article directories. In the footer of each article you write, you should include a "blurb" about yourself and also a LINK back to you website, using your main keyword in the "anchor text" of course. This is a great way to get 1-way links to your website. A 1-way link is when another website links to you without you linking back to them. Google and other search engines view 1-way links as being much more important than reciprocal links, so the more 1-way links you can get for your website, the better rankings you will have. A great place to find a list of many article directories to submit your articles to is the following website: http://www.pro-marketing-online.com/submit-articles.html As I said above, getting links to your website is absolutely critical to ranking well in the search engines. Whether you get links by sending link request emails, filling out "add a link" forms, or by writing articles and submitting them to directories, you must get links to your website. Without links, you will NOT have good search engine rankings. By taking a few hours every week to get links, over the course of a few months, I can guarantee youll rank VERY well for nearly any search term, period. It works, and it works extremely well. Again, keep in mind the "principles" Im teaching you. It doesnt matter how you go about getting the links, its a matter of just getting links to begin with... So, whether you use software or other tools to make your analyzing easier, it doesnt matter.

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Search Engine Optimization MADE EASY 50By Brad Callen Quick Summary QUICK SUMMARY To summarize everything youve learned thus far, Im going to break everything down into Offpage Optimization AND Onpage Optimization. Offpage optimization is THE most important aspect of ranking well in ANY search engine, period. Its critical you know this. For offpage optimization... ? You must have links pointing to your website. ? These links must include your main keywords in the "anchor text". ? Its best to get links from the exact same websites that the top ranked websites have their links on. ? Try to get links from as many different IP Addresses as possible. ? Its best to have close to the same % of links containing the specific keyword youre trying to rank well for, as the top ranked websites. SEO Elite Shows you this. In order to get links to your website, you can trade links with other people buy sending link requests. ? You can also buy text links from the places I mentioned ? You can write articles and submit them to websites. Include a link to your website in the footer of your article. Onpage optimization is still important, but just not nearly as important as offpage optimization. You should do both. ? Include your keywords in your page title ? Use the | symbol to separate words ? Use only your main keywords. Dont use filler words. The | character will act as a filler ? Use <h1> and <h2> header tags ? Bold, italicize, and underline some keywords ? Place your main keyword at the beginning and end of your webpage ? Include your keyword in the copyright footer of your webpage ? Use <alt> image tags and include your keyword, plus the word "image" or "graphic" etc. Thats the basics of SEO that you MUST do to rank well. In the following chapters were going to dive into a few of the more advanced SEO techniques that will catapult you into the top 10 search results of ANY search engine.

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Search Engine Optimization MADE EASY 51By Brad Callen Chapter 6 Chapter 6 “Are You Asking Google To Penalize Or Ban Your Website?” Its a simple question... Are you asking Google to penalize your website? Im sure youre probably thinking; Well, of course not! Yet daily I see new people complaining in search engine optimization forums that their websites have been banned by Google and they "have no idea why". These people claim theyve done nothing wrong and are absolutely clueless as to why their site is no longer in Google. The purpose of this lesson is to teach you one VERY important thing. What NOT to do when optimizing your onpage ranking factors How do you know if youve been banned? First let me show you how to see if youre clearly banned by Google. Often times people think theyve been banned, when in reality theyve just dropped in ranking and cant find their website. There are a couple of things you can do. 1.) Check Googles search results. 2.) View the Google toolbar. Check Googles search results. Go to Google and enter your entire URL into Googles search box. In this example well use a made up name. (www.jkhljkhkjh.com). Lets say this website was in Googles index at one time. On a side note, I tried www.somerandomdomain.com and www.fakedomainname.com and both were already taken. I guess some people just dont have enough time on their hands :-) Anyway, well go to Google and enter our entire URL and click "search" Http://www.jkhljkhkjh.com

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Search Engine Optimization MADE EASY 52By Brad Callen Chapter 6 Notice that Google says there is no information available for this URL? This means that the URL is no longer in Googles database. If you enter a brand new website into Google, youll always get this message until the website has been indexed. But, in this case, our website has been banned by Google for some reason. Another way you can quickly see if your website has been banned is by: Viewing the Google Toolbar. Download the Google Toolbar here: http://toolbar.google.com Once its installed, simply visit your website. If the Google toolbar is completely gray, this means you have been banned by Google. Banned: * Note: Most SEOs call this "gray barred". Not Banned: Ok, so now we know how to tell if our website has been banned. What can cause your website to get banned? There are many onpage ranking factors AND offpage ranking factors that can cause Google to ban your website. Today, well focus on only the onpage things that can cause your site to get banned. Before I begin, I want you to know that many websites still get away with doing some of these things. They DO NOT help your rankings and are simply a waste of time, so dont try them. Sooner or later Google will catch up to these websites and will remove them. Its just not worth the risk, when doing them doesnt help your ranking to begin with.

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Search Engine Optimization MADE EASY 53By Brad Callen Chapter 6 Hidden Text Hidden Text is simply text that users cant see when they visit your webpage. Some webmasters will do this so that they can add keywords throughout their webpage without it interfering with what the visitors actually see. Yet, the search engines can still see hidden text. For example, lets say you have a white background on your website. If you wanted to hide text, you would simply make the color of your text white (#FFFFFF) and users couldnt see it. I did a quick search in Google and quickly found an example of a website using hidden text. Have a look below: At first glance, youre probably wondering where the hidden text is...

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Search Engine Optimization MADE EASY 54By Brad Callen Chapter 6 Let me show you. I went to the website and clicked "ctrl + a" on my keyboard. This will highlight the entire webpage as shown below: Now we can clearly see the hidden text at the very top left side of their website that says "fat loss body fat abs weight loss diets bodybuilding dieting tips abdominals” These are keywords that they want to rank well for and want the search engines to see when they first visit their website. Yet, they dont want their visitors to see this text. So, theyve made the text white, to blend in with the background. If you go to Google and enter "fat loss", they actually rank #1, but its definitely NOT for this reason. They rank well because of their excellent onpage ranking factors, which Ive taught you in previous lessons. If they were to remove this hidden text, they would continue to rank #1 and would not have the potential of getting banned by Google.

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Search Engine Optimization MADE EASY 55By Brad Callen Chapter 6 Alt image tag spamming This is another way that people will try to cram keywords into their website, allowing search engines to see their keywords, but not allowing visitors to notice any difference in their website. The following is a website that wanted to rank well for "cabbage soup diet". What theyve done is inserted a graphic of a cabbage. Theyve then added an alt image tag to the graphic. When a visitors visits the website, hovers their mouse over the cabbage soup graphic, a little popup will appear. Notice how many times theyve repeated the word "cabbage soup" and "cabbage"? Way too many! It serves no purpose other than to cram as many keywords as possible into their webpage. The real purpose of an alt image tag is if a user visits your website and the graphic will not load, or is disabled by their web browser, text will appear instead of the graphic. This is often used for blind people. Alt image spamming is something you want to stay clear of. Using alt image tags are good, but you can overdo it as you can see above. A good alt image tag in this case would simply be: cabbage soup diet graphic

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Search Engine Optimization MADE EASY 56By Brad Callen Chapter 6 Meta Tag Stuffing What Im referring to here is when people throw in thousands of the same exact keyword into their meta tags. For example, the following website is trying to rank well for "tents". <META NAME="KEYWORDS" CONTENT="tents, TENTS, Tents, tents tents tent supplies, tents, tents tent, tent, Tent, TENTS, tents, Tents,tents, TENTS, Tents, tents tents tent supplies, tents, tents tent, tent, Tent, TENTS, tents, Tents,tents, TENTS, Tents, tents tents tent supplies, tents, tents tent, tent, Tent, TENTS, tents, Tents,tents, TENTS, Tents, tents tents tent supplies, tents, tents tent, tent, Tent, TENTS, tents, Tents tents, TENTS, Tents, tents tents tent supplies, tents, tents tent, tent, Tent, TENTS, tents, Tents"> This is obviously ridiculous. Google doesnt use Meta Tags when ranking websites. Google WILL penalize it, but it WILL NOT help you... so, why would anyone do something like this? Stay away from it. Title Tag Stuffing The title is what appears in the top left hand corner of your webpage. Below is an example of Title Tag Stuffing Dont do it... You only need to include your keyword(s) one time in your title tag. Anymore than 1 time will only dilute the effect, and if you overdo it as shown above, you may get banned. Those are just a few of the things that people are continuing to do online. These things WILL eventually get your website banned and WILL NOT help you rank well. Its just a waste of time and effort, plus just plain ignorant to waste your time on something that doesnt work and will get your website banned from the search engines. In the next chapter Im going to show you some of the offpage optimization techniques that you should steer clear of. Many of which are things that over 50% of the websites online are currently doing and are causing them to drop out of Google by the handful. So, pay close attention, you just may be doing something you shouldnt be!

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Search Engine Optimization MADE EASY 57By Brad Callen Chapter 7 Chapter 7 “Dont Get Your Website Banned BY Google... By Accident!” In the last chapter we talked about the onpage optimization factors that can cause your website to be banned by Google. Those things included: ? Hidden Text ? Alt Image spamming ? Meta tag stuffing ? Title tag stuffing Which were only a few of the SEO "no-nos" you should stay far away from. In this chapter Im going to dive into some of the offpage optimization factors/techniques that you should never ever do. First lets dispel some popular myths. ? If a "link farm" is linking to your website youll get penalized and or banned from Google - FALSE ? If unrelated websites are linking to you, your website will get penalized - FALSE ? Page Rank 1 websites wont help you because Google does not display Pr1 websites in their backlink list - FALSE None of the above are true statements for the simple fact that: Anything a competitor could do to harm your website will NEVER be penalized by Google. Think about that for a minute. If any of those could actually penalize your website, how many people do you think would simply add their competitors websites to link farm websites, unrelated websites, and low PR websites? Unfortunately, it would be quite a few. The only way you can get penalized by offpage optimization is if YOU link out to "bad neighborhoods", which would be: ? Link Farms ? Penalized websites (websites that are "gray barred" by Google) Now, you would think this would be a pretty easy thing to stay away from, right? Wrong!

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Search Engine Optimization MADE EASY 58By Brad Callen Chapter 7 Example: Take this case for example, Lets say I had a website and exchanged links with your website. At the time that we exchanged links, both of our websites were very quality, related websites, with a Google Page Rank of 5. This would be an ideal link trade. Ok, now several months go by, and in the meantime, Im doing all kinds of "black-hat SEO” Note: Black Hat SEO is simply doing all of the things that can get you banned by the search engines. I mentioned many of these in the previous lesson. After doing all of this Black Hat SEO, Google decides to ban my website, which gives me a "gray barred Page Rank" and Im no longer in Googles index of websites. Im completely gone from Google. So what, right? I mean, you could care less since its not your website... Well, guess what? Your still linking to my website, which is now considered to be a "bad neighbor" and you could actually get penalized MAJORLY for linking to me, without even doing anything differently to your own website! Think about that for a minute... You could actually drop hundreds of search positions without even knowing what youve done wrong! That is why its very important to keep a close eye on who youre linking to. If you a do a link exchange with a website, check back to that website every once in awhile to make sure that they havent been "gray barred" by Google. This is one of the top reasons that people get penalized by Google, and the sad part is, they have no idea what theyve done wrong because they havent actually CHANGED anything on their website! Any easy way to check on your link partners is to use the tool that I mentioned in chapter 4. You can actually use SEO Elite to see if you are linking out to any bad neighbors. If you are, then delete their link immediately and I can almost guarantee you will see an increase in your ranking.

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Search Engine Optimization MADE EASY 59By Brad Callen Chapter 7 Lets go over how I do this: (Again, keep in mind that you should just do this manually if you dont have the software.) ? Open up SEO Elite ? Select radio button 4 ? Enter one of your links pages into the textbox ? Select Google PR from the checkboxes and click "ok” SEO Elite Will then visit each website that you are linking to and will tell you whether or not they could be a possible "bad neighbor". How? Well, lets have a look...

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Search Engine Optimization MADE EASY 60By Brad Callen Chapter 7 Once SEO Elite is finished processing, click over to the report view tab and look at the column labeled "Google PR” If you notice any websites with a Google Page Rank of 0, this "could" mean theyve been banned by Google. Notice I said it "could" mean this. They could either be banned OR, more likely theyre just a new website and their Page Rank hasnt been updated by Google yet. ? So, youll want to write down which websites have a Page Rank of 0. Then... Youll need to select radio button 6 within SEO Elite . This option will allow you to see if the website is still in Googles index. Youll want to enter all PR0 websites into the textbox, select the Google checkbox, and click "ok". If Google returns 0 results for the website, that immediately tells you that theyve been banned and you should remove their link immediately! You would be amazed at the number of websites that have no idea why they arent ranking well, when theyve followed ALL of the good SEO practices Ive taught. If this is you and youre still not ranking well, I would venture to say that you might be linking out to a penalized and/or banned website.

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Search Engine Optimization MADE EASY 61By Brad Callen Chapter 7 So, how do you ensure yourself, 100% that youre not linking to a "bad neighbor"? I have just the solution... Lets sidebar for just a moment. For those of you that are already familiar with getting other websites to link to you, you know that you can search Google for websites that have forms that you can actually submit your link Youll notice that you cane enter the: ? Name of your site (The anchor text) ? The URL of your website ? The Description of your website ? URL where your site reciprocates (The location on your website where youve added their link)

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Search Engine Optimization MADE EASY 62By Brad Callen Chapter 7 This is a GREAT way to get links to your website when youre first beginning. A great trick to find an enormous amount of websites with web forms like the one above is to do the following. 1.) Go to Google 2.) Enter the following search phrase EXACTLY as shown below: Keyword "Please also suggest my link to the LinkPartners.com Directory." Note: Replace "Keyword" with whatever keyword you want to find websites that are related to that keyword... If I wanted to find weight loss related websites I would enter: Weight Loss "Please also suggest my link to the LinkPartners.com Directory." 3.) Once youve done that and clicked submit, Google will return a giant list of websites that have link submission forms and you can submit your link to! Do this, as its a little known secret to gathering a lot of links. Also, there is another free way to get a lot of links to your website... There is a website that will actually allow you to trade links with other websites that are completely related to your website AND are actively interested in trading links. Each member has a "rating", similar to an Ebay rating. The rating will tell you how many link exchange requests theyve gotten, as well as how many of those link exchange requests theyve actually exchanged links with. Simply, exchange links with the websites with high ratings and youre virtually guaranteed a response! Plus, all of the contacting of websites is done through our website, so youll NEVER get in trouble for spam. Youll notice the website above has had 5 link exchange requests and has honored all 5 of them. They would be a good website to exchange links with. You could easily get 100s of reciprocal links in less than a week. Even less than a few days, to be honest. Now, the website is brand spankin new, and already has thousands of websites that you can trade links with. So, I highly suggest you visit the site, sign up for FREE, and start trading links. If anything, once you sign up, youll probably just be able to sit back and other members will contact YOU to trade links! Ive been signed up for about 2 days and have over 20 new links to my website with almost no effort on my part. The only thing Ive done is add their link to my website after they add mine to theirs!

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Search Engine Optimization MADE EASY 63By Brad Callen Chapter 7 So... whats the website? http://www.linkmetro.com Here are two short demo videos that have been created to show you the simple process of exchanging links via this site: Demo Video 1 (Request a Link Exchange) Click here to view demo Demo Video 2 (Approve a Link Request) Click here to view demo Again, I highly suggest you take advantage of this completely FREE resource while its still free.

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Search Engine Optimization MADE EASY 64By Brad Callen Chapter 8 Chapter 8 “Possibly The Biggest Misconception About Ranking Well In The Search Engines...” In previous chapters Ive taught you different optimization strategies. Ive taught you the difference between onpage search engine optimization and offpage search engine optimization. Quick Review Onpage search engine optimization are things that you can change ON your webpage. ? Title tag ? Header tags ? Bolding, Italicizing, Underlining ? Alt image tags ? Meta Tags ? Etc. Offpage search engine optimization comes down to basically 1 thing, which websites are linking to your wesbite and how theyre doing it. ? Anchor text uses in your link ? The title of the page your link is on ? The page rank of the page your link is on ? The "theme" of the website your link is on ? Etc. By now, Im hoping you see that its the offpage search engine optimization factors that will get your website to the top of the search engines. Again, the onpage factors are things you SHOULD do, but are not nearly as important as the offpage factors. Ok... Let me show you why.

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Search Engine Optimization MADE EASY 65By Brad Callen Chapter 8 Lets analyze a website! In this example Im going to analyze the #1 ranked website on Google for the search term "click here". First, lets go to Google and enter "click here". Youll notice that the #1 ranked website is www.adobe.com. Thats interesting... Now, why would adobe.com rank #1 for that search term? I would think adobe.com would rank well for terms like: ? graphic design programs ? create printable documents ? web design programs ? and other keywords related to what they sell... A few things that you should notice by looking at the picture above. 1.) The word "click here" isnt in the page title 2.) The word "click here" isnt in the URL of the website. 3.) The word "click here" isnt even in the description listed by Google!

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Search Engine Optimization MADE EASY 66By Brad Callen Chapter 8 Now, lets click on the listing in Google and check out the actual webpage. Now, get this... The words "click here" arent even on the webpage, anywhere! If all of those onpage optimization techniques that many SEO companies talk about were true, then dont you think a different website would rank #1 for this term? Onpage optimization factors like: ? keyword density ? keyword prominence ? keyword proximity ? bolding, italicizing, underlining ? etc. are NOT critical to worry about when trying to rank well for a search term. Yes, you should spinkle your keyword throughout the webpage and do the other onpage optimization techniques Ive taught you in previous lessons, but again, I really want to drill this into your head. It is the offpage optimization that will increase your rankings in the search engines; specifically Google, Yahoo, and MSN.